“THE RON PAUL SOLUTION:
Here’s what we HAVE to do to solve the problem,” says Paul: ”
1) Let banks and companies fail if they cannot survive on their own
2) Stop inflating asset prices with government purchases and bailouts
3) End the Trillion dollar annual spending to maintain the US Global Empire
4) Bring all our troops and assets [...]

Paola Totaro in Davos, Switzerland
February 1, 2009
Rupert Murdoch … in Davos Fabrice Coffrini.
THE billionaire media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, has issued a combative and inflammatory challenge to the new Obama Administration: take on the American teaching unions to rescue America’s failing education system.
…
Mr Murdoch said that the new President would never enjoy such high approval ratings [...]

After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it “a preintroduction” to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within the year.
Before the camera was turned off, Ambassador Rotem said “the [...]

The defense establishment, led by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, steadfastly refused to publicize the figures, arguing, for one thing, that publication could endanger state security or harm Israel’s foreign relations. Someone who is liable to be particularly interested in the data collected by Spiegel is George Mitchell, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle [...]

By Russ Dallen
Latin American Herald Tribune staff
SAO PAULO — General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.
According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial [...]

“We believe that Mr. Obama has spent over $800,000 on numerous attorneys to keep his original birth certificate sealed, because the original vault birth certificate does not provide any corroborating evidence from any hospital about him being born there,” Taitz said.
Lawyer in eligibility case seeks records of secret discussions

Obama stimulus package has far more to do with
increasing Democrat power than with economic stimulus . . .
by Marilyn M. Brannan, Associate Editor
IRN/USA Radio News Network
In a meeting with congressional leaders during the first week of his presidency, Barack Obama warned of the urgency to push through his so-called “economic stimulus” plan (which will push [...]

Economic stimulus? Feds want your medical records

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A little-discussed provision in President Obama’s economic stimulus plan would demand that every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, and it has privacy advocates more than a little alarmed.
Patients might be alarmed, too, privacy advocates [...]

Conservative News and Reporting
“News for the Rest of Us”
Michele Chang
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including all branches of the armed forces, the Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tradition.
A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman [...]

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for [...]

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has cut ties with the Vatican over the Pope’s decision to lift the excommunication of an English bishop who denies the full extent of the Holocaust.
In a measure of Jewish anger around the world at the reinstating of the four bishops of the Society of St Pius X, the Chief [...]

Haarde’s government has nationalized banks and negotiated about $10 billion in loans from the IMF and individual countries. In addition, Iceland faces a bill likely to run to billions of dollars to repay thousands of Europeans who held accounts with subsidiaries of collapsed Icelandic banks.
The country’s commerce minister, Bjorgvin Sigurdsson, quit Sunday, citing the [...]